IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lechuguilla
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S12NM015022
  • User Pedon ID: S2012NM015022
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - T12NM015019
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N8025
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 56649
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 32.2647820
  • Std. Longitude: -104.3801498
  • Datum: WGS84
  • MLRA: 70D—Southern Desert Foothills

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Aaron Miller, Logan Peterson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, thermic Aridic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lechuguilla
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, thermic Aridic Haplustolls
  • PSC - 0 to 33 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/14/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: indurated limestone, unspecified at 33cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/14/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, shrubby
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    33 -

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    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    49

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    1183.5

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    335

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    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; very flaggy silt loam; 15 percent sand; 20 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; 4.0 very fine roots and 1.0 fine roots; 2.0 very fine interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-76-150 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 150-265-380 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 12N03022; observed in pit, small
    A2—10 to 33 centimeters (3.9 to 13.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; very gravelly silt loam; 15 percent sand; 20 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; 4.0 very fine roots and 1.0 fine roots; 2.0 very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-165-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 150-265-380 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-30-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n.; observed in pit, small
    R—33 centimeters (13.0 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small